Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

• Proven, senior-level experience as an Infrastructure Engineer within a mid-to-large, established organisation with complex, bespoke, or grown organically legacy environments
• Experience in a regulated sector, such as financial services, healthcare, life sciences or defence, with a solid understanding of handling sensitive data securely, particularly during data transfers
• Strong hands-on experience with Dell servers, Windows Server, Hyper‑V/VMware, QNAP NAS and Cisco Meraki
• Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing and ACLs
• Proven track record of physical infrastructure work, including racking, cabling and site relocations
• Experience with SaaS tenancy migrations and identity platforms such as AD and Entra
• Prior involvement in M&A, infrastructure transformation, or large‑scale integration programmes is highly desirable
• A natural mentor, comfortable leading and upskilling less experienced colleagues without steamrolling them
• Calm, structured and professional under pressure
• Full UK driving licence

• Assess legacy infrastructure and design pragmatic, low‑risk migration and remediation plans
• Physically relocate legacy equipment between sites, including racking, unracking, cabling and re‑cabling comms rooms
• Commission new server rooms, including racks, hardware population and structured cabling
• Manage Dell servers, Windows Server and virtualisation across both environments
• Configure and maintain QNAP NAS storage
• Own backup and restore using Veeam, including monitoring jobs, performing restores and supporting active migrations
• Configure and troubleshoot Cisco Meraki networking, including firewalls, VLANs and segmentation
• Tidy up and restructure legacy network environments
• Support SaaS and tenancy migrations, including moving services from legacy to new tenants, and identity platform work across AD and Entra
• Act as a senior escalation point, working closely with project managers, security teams and vendors
• Mentor and upskill junior members of the in‑house IT team, ensuring knowledge transfer ahead of handover

• Cisco
• Hardware
• Hyper‑V
• Support
• LESS
• Network
• Security
• TCP/IP
• VMware
• Veeam
• Windows
• Dev Ops

We are a global pharmaceutical business delivering a fast‑moving six‑month M&A integration programme to bring a newly acquired companys IT estate into a stable, standardised target‑state environment. This is a hands‑on, fully on‑site role based primarily at our Motherwell site with travel to other Scotland sites as required. The contract is up to £650 per day, inside IR35, for 6 months with a view to extend, and we are looking for someone who can hit the ground running with genuine ownership from day one.

last updated 36 week of 2026